Before posting an addon idea/request in this forum, please review the following list of things which addons cannot do. Use your browser's "find in page" feature to help look for specific things. Posts requesting addons that do anything listed here may be deleted or mercilessly ridiculed.

If you notice something missing from this list, or erroneously included in this list, post a comment on this thread, and I will edit the list. This thread is also posted on the WowAce forums, here.

Do not post here about things that violate the WoW EULA and/or TOS.

This is an official fan site, and thus must abide by Blizzard's rules. Posting about things that violate the WoW EULA and/or TOS, or this site's own rules, will get you a warning and a locked thread the first time, and a ban the second time. Such topics include, but are not limited to:

Model/skin changing

Login screen changing

Private servers

Bots, hacks, or other third-party software that interferes with WoW's normal functioning

Gold selling/buying, power leveling, account sharing/selling, etc.

Addons cannot access anything outside of WoW.

You cannot read from or post to Facebook, Twitter, RSS, etc.

You cannot connect to Facebook chat, Skype, etc.

You cannot read from or write to files on the hard disk.

You cannot show what song is currently playing in Winamp.

You cannot show who's talking in Ventrilo.

Addons cannot load arbitrary URLs in the in-game browser.

The in-game browser can only display specific Battle.net account and support pages allowed by Blizzard.

These actions require a hardware event, such as clicking a button on your mouse or pressing a key on your keyboard, and include:

Looting a bind-on-pickup item

This isn't necessarily a protected action of any sort. There's a glitch in immediate confirmation while using the game's built-in autoloot that the confirmation will be ignored. An addon may request to loot the same item a couple more times, confirming the loot and it usually will happen within that time without any further action from the user.

This has been observed running LootSlot() from the LOOT_BIND_CONFIRM event.

This isn't necessarily a protected action of any sort. There's a glitch in immediate confirmation while using the game's built-in autoloot that the confirmation will be ignored. An addon may request to loot the same item a couple more times, confirming the loot and it usually will happen within that time without any further action from the user.

This has been observed running LootSlot() from the LOOT_BIND_CONFIRM event.

Removed from the list.

Also updated to clarify that changing focus requires a hardware event, and that addons cannot interact with Facebook and Twitter (apparently "no websites" wasn't clear enough).